Angie Brooks-Randolph Quotes
The United Nations believes we cannot continue to ignore 800 million people…. to solve the problem we must have two Chinas.
At the time the Permanent China Seat in the United Nations was held by Chang Kai Chek and his nationalist forces who had abandoned the Chinese Mainland and were holding out on the island of Formosa (Taiwan). The Chinese Communists who represented 800 million Chinese wanted the China Seat. Most of the world saw the solution as recognizing the two de facto Chinas and having them both in the U. N. The Communists insisted that there was only one China and they were the legitimate representatives. The Nationalists, ironically took the same one China position, deluding themselves into thinking that they would get control of the Mainland. They put pressure on the U. S. and we adopted the “One China” policy which was adopted by most of the world. Soon it became evident that Taiwan was a small island of people who represented no one else in China, and the single Chinese seat went to the Communists. Later, many in Taiwan regretted the one China policy and would have loved to be recognized as an independent country.
Angie Brooks-Randolph, Liberian Representative to the United Nations, President of General Assembly, Justice of the Liberian Supreme Court, Quoted in The Los Angeles Examiner, February 27, 1970
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The “gentlemen: were 4 ultraconservative members of Congress who objected to our sending surplus food to India when they had a terrible famine. India was “non-aligned” in the Cold War and the Congressmen did not want to send them food unless they allied with us against the Russians. India was a fledgling democracy at the time and was vulnerable to bad weather and crop failure. Once, our food helped them get on their feet, they improved their agricultural production and today they have sufficient food stored so that they can survive major agricultural crises.
He used the “united nations” as a general description as the UN had not been created or named yet, However, as this quotation demonstrates, the President was already thinking about a UN idea, but as a realist, he explained that the great powers had to come to some agreement of interests. Actually China and France, at the time, would go along with whatever the United States and Britain wanted to do and had a great common interest, and there was already a strong association of interests between Britain and America. Russia was to be the problem and a complete common interest was never to be, but there was enough to get the United Nations started.
Angie Elizabeth Brooks was a Liberian diplomat and jurist. She was the only African female President of the United Nations General Assembly. She was also the second woman from any nation to head the U.N.
